0 past simple and past participle of mitigate --
1 to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad: --
A further advantage applicable to low-temperature environments is that diurnal freeze-thaw cycles might be mitigated, reducing freeze-thaw stress to the microbes.
The government campaigns neither mitigated the prevalence or severity of clitoridectomy nor did they wrest full control of female initiation away from older women.
Many genetic disadvantages, for example, can be mitigated without recourse to actual genetic manipulation.
Thus, a border dispute is successfully managed if the dispute is resolved, mitigated or at least prevented from escalation.
The governess's presence made the middle-class family's social replication of itself possible; imagining her as only supplemental mitigated its dependence on such an aristocratic holdover.
In this way, it mitigated both the unresolved problem of democratic control under capitalism, and the deficiencies of collective services.
These can be mitigated if governments anchor liberalization commitments in regional agreements that supplement the multilateral process.
By utilizing cross-sectional data within a country, this problem is mitigated.
